Rank	Firm	Office	Score
1	Kirkland & Ellis LLP	Chicago	83.87
2	Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz	New York	82.55
3	Ropes & Gray LLP	Boston	81.83
4	Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP	Philadelphia	81.15
5	Alston & Bird LLP	Atlanta	80.71
6	Davis Polk & Wardwell	New York	80.38
7	Munger, Tolles & Olson LLP	Los Angeles	80.03
8	Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP	New York	79.94
9	Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP	Los Angeles	79.67
10	Kirkland & Ellis LLP	San Francisco	78.65
11	Latham & Watkins LLP	Los Angeles	78.25
12	Covington & Burling LLP	DC	78.15
13 TIE	Sullivan & Cromwell LLP	New York	77.98
13 TIE	Sidley Austin LLP	Chicago	77.98
15	Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP	New York	77.67
16	WilmerHale	Boston	77.56
17	Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP	New York	76.77
18	King & Spalding	Atlanta	76.46
19	Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP	DC	75.90
20	Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP and Affiliates	Chicago	75.80
21	Dechert LLP	Philadelphia	75.73
22	Vinson & Elkins LLP	Houston	75.59
23	Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP and Affiliates	DC	75.27
24	Latham & Watkins LLP	Chicago	75.16
25	Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP and Affiliates	New York	75.12
26	WilmerHale	DC	74.09
27	Kirkland & Ellis LLP	DC	74.03
28	Davis Polk & Wardwell	Silicon Valley	73.98
29	Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP	New York	73.83
30	Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP and Affiliates	Los Angeles	73.73
31	Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP	San Francisco	73.33
32	Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati	Silicon Valley	73.30
33	Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP	Atlanta	73.28
34	Kirkland & Ellis LLP	Los Angeles	73.25
35	O'Melveny & Myers LLP	Los Angeles	73.21
36	Latham & Watkins LLP	Houston	72.92
37	Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP	DC	72.81
38	Latham & Watkins LLP	San Francisco	72.77
39	Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP	Los Angeles	72.76
40 TIE	Debevoise & Plimpton LLP	New York	72.31
40 TIE	Cooley LLP	Silicon Valley	72.31
42	Latham & Watkins LLP	Silicon Valley	72.18
43	Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP and Affiliates	Boston	71.58
44	Latham & Watkins LLP	DC	71.02
45 TIE	Reed Smith LLP	Philadelphia	70.93
45 TIE	Williams & Connolly LLP	DC	70.93
47	Boies, Schiller & Flexner LLP	New York	70.70
48	Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati	San Francisco	70.69
49	Irell & Manella LLP	Los Angeles	70.61
50	Pepper Hamilton LLP	Philadelphia	70.55
51	Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP	New York	70.53
52	Sidley Austin LLP	DC	70.48
53	Morrison & Foerster LLP	San Francisco	69.99
54	Latham & Watkins LLP	New York	69.74
55	Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP	DC	69.52
56	Covington & Burling LLP	San Francisco	69.31
57	Jones Day	Chicago	69.22
58	Goodwin Procter LLP	Boston	68.97
59	Jones Day	DC	68.83
60	Arnold & Porter LLP	DC	68.75
61	Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP	New York	68.68
62	Jones Day	Atlanta	68.67
63	Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP	San Francisco	68.62
64	Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP	New York	68.55
65	Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP	Philadelphia	68.44
66	Hogan Lovells US LLP	DC	68.36
67	Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP	San Francisco	68.27
68	Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP	DC	68.18
69	Morrison & Foerster LLP	Silicon Valley	68.11
70	Baker Botts LLP	Houston	68.02
71	Sidley Austin LLP	San Francisco	67.92
72	Susman Godfrey L.L.P.	Houston	67.86
73	Fenwick & West LLP	San Francisco	67.79
74	Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP	DC	67.62
75	Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP	Silicon Valley	67.60
76	Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP and Affiliates	Silicon Valley	67.54
77	Mayer Brown LLP	Chicago	67.49
78	Baker & Hostetler LLP	Philadelphia	67.41
79	Morrison & Foerster LLP	Los Angeles	67.08
80	Paul Hastings LLP	Los Angeles	66.56
81	Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP	Silicon Valley	66.28
82	Jenner & Block LLP	Chicago	66.25
83	Sidley Austin LLP	Los Angeles	66.20
84	Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky and Popeo P.C.	Boston	65.86
85	McDermott Will & Emery LLP	Chicago	65.72
86	McKenna Long & Aldridge LLP	Atlanta	65.68
87	Fish & Richardson P.C.	Boston	65.48
88	Cooley LLP	San Francisco	65.46
89	Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP	Los Angeles	65.40
90	Jones Day	San Francisco	65.37
91	Cahill Gordon & Reindel LLP	New York	64.82
92	O'Melveny & Myers LLP	San Francisco	64.72
93	Greenberg Traurig, LLP	Los Angeles	64.69
94	Greenberg Traurig, LLP	Atlanta	64.66
95	Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP	Silicon Valley	64.52
96	Paul Hastings LLP	Atlanta	64.21
97	Paul Hastings LLP	San Francisco	64.10
98	Covington & Burling LLP	New York	64.07
99	Troutman Sanders LLP	Atlanta	63.65
100	Ropes & Gray LLP	San Francisco	63.57

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Back in July, we launched the ATL Law Firm Reputation Survey, asking those of you working in Biglaw to rate your peers and competitors. Included in these rankings were market-specific questions, inquiring about both the reputation of firms in each survey participant's city as well as each firm's desirability as a potential employer. In creating the survey, we limited our city-specific firm choices to offices with at least 50 lawyers. Our office rankings include the following markets: Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Houston, Los Angeles, New York, Philadelphia, San Francisco, Silicon Valley and Washington, DC.

Firms are rated on a scale with 100 possible points:

• Market-specific reputation survey*
  “Strength and quality of practice”: 35%
  “Potential employer”: 15%
• Leverage
  Ratio of equity partners to all other attorneys: 5%
• Growth/decay
  % change in headcount since 2009: 5%
• Percentage of women partners: 5%
• “Homegrown” partners
  Likelihood of incoming associates making equity partner: 5%*
• Insider satisfaction
  ATL Insider Survey: 5%**
• Compensation rating: 25%***

As with the Power 100, we are making value judgments in choosing and assigning weight to these metrics. For example, we are rewarding firms for maintaining low leverage, or for offering a relatively better chance for incoming associates to eventually ascend to partnership.

Also, to be sure, law firms are not homogenous in their approaches to partnership tracks or compensation structures or other aspects that we have sought to measure here, but we have done our best to account for these differences and create a formula that allows for meaningful comparisons.

The perfect "ATL score" is 100. Each firm is awarded a maximum number of points based on the weight of each metric (a maximum of 25 points for highest compensation rating, 5 points for highest growth headcount, etc.). The points are awarded on a sliding scale from highest to lowest. (For certain categories, firms were placed into tiers and points were apportioned accordingly.) Those points add up to the total ATL score seen on the rankings table.

* Survey conducted in partnership with Kinney Recruiting.
** Data for the “homegrown” metric courtesy of Leopard Solutions.
*** Compensation rating accounts for the following 4 factors: first-year salary, recent track record for bonuses, profits per partner (as reported to Am Law), and survey data.